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by amyjess 8y ago
So, I was discussing this with a friend on Facebook last night, and one thing that both of us agreed on is that the bro culture of Silicon Valley may be driving women away. This is what my friend, who works in Dallas, had to say about SV: &
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As a Dallas native: 1) There are no natural borders in the Dallas area, so development can sprawl forever and ever unlike in SV/SV and LA which are boxed in by mountains and the Pacific Ocean. 2) Pretty much the entire metro area embra
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Archive link for those unable to view the article: http://archive.is/0KJyA Also, I had to cut a word from the title to fit HN's length limit. I hope that's OK.
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No. 1 state for female entrepreneurs is Texas: Study(dallasnews.com)
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I suppose the equivalent US term is "mall crawler".
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I wonder if there would be a market for a company to do aftermarket conversions of the Ford Transit Connect into a Ridgeline-esque pickup truck. Too bad Ford doesn't import the even smaller Transit Courier, though...
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"Other software" also includes "control panels, management interfaces, and so on".
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From the Open Source Definition: > 9. License Must Not Restrict Other Software > The license must not place restrictions on other software that is distributed along with the licensed software. For example, the license must not insist
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FYI, XUL is being kept alive by the Pale Moon/Basilisk team, who has created a next-generation platform based on XUL called UXP (Unified XUL Platform). https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/UXP
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> P.S. The "safe" job might not be as safe as it seems. It's been my experience that if you can get one 9–5 job, you can get another as long as you have a nontrivial amount of experience. For example, I last got laid off i
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Agreed. I take serious exception to the notion that a safe 9-5 job is something that needs to be "escaped".
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I believe the Motorola StarTAC was directly inspired by the communicators from TOS. Visually, it's pretty similar [0], and even the name recalls Star Trek . [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Startac_130_Movis
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My company takes care of their employees much better than pretty much any other tech company I've ever heard of, and while it _is_ a tech company, I can only conclude that it's for the following reasons: - It was founded and is st
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No. I would recommend reading the works of Thomas Szasz. Declarations that somebody is "mentally ill" are almost universally done to target undesirables for persecution.
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...and those are companies I have no desire to ever work for. I tried it once. The company was an abusive hellhole, and I'm glad I got out. Edit: Also, if you're working at an early-stage startup and making below market rate, you
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> This case looks like it involves master-slave/sub-dom sexual deviancy, which seems aesthetically opposed to prevailing social mores at Google, which place a high moral value on consensuality. Pretty much every description of the c
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And encouraging the kinds of people who aren't compatible with the startup lifestyle (e.g. myself) to join startups is a recipe for disaster for not only the employee but the startup itself. Successful startups require people who will
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That honestly sounds like a horrendous place to work. Paying people below market rate is exploitation, and making people work with a Sword of Damocles over their heads is a good way to increase the suicide rate.
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by amyjess 8y ago
> you will find that the people with skin-in-the-game (administrators) were massively against systemd Let me offer you an anecdote from my company. Now, we're a RHEL shop and not a Debian shop, but we've been around since long
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For me, no screen real estate is wasted. I keep about 40 tabs open in Konsole at all times, and if I'm not actively on a tab, I don't see it. I'm so used to playing all of my media with mpv that using any kind of GUI app woul
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by amyjess 8y ago
Honestly, I hate middle-click paste and would much rather use the middle mouse button for autoscroll. Middle-click paste has just made me terrified of ever pressing the middle mouse button for fear of sending PII to somebody.
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For all any of us know, Amazon's lawyers already talked to Microsoft's lawyers about it and got permission beforehand. See: Apple licensing the iOS name from Cisco before announcing the name change.
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> Realistically, the next step you will see, unless something changes, is that they will start going after people for API duplication. They have precedent (currently) on their side in the US. IANAL, but since they already released the AP
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I love the suburbs. A lot of people love the suburbs. People choose to live in suburbs all across the country for a reason. Not everyone wants to live in some cramped, claustrophobic city with awful schools and constant street harassment by
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Yes, cities like this are designed for the benefit of residents, not tourists. It's designed to be a nice place to live, first and foremost. Now, if you know a local, you could easily get all kinds of recommendations for interesting re
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So, I'm a die-hard meat eater, and I categorically refuse to ever give up meat, but there is some seriously fantastic vegetarian food out there based on this exact principle. There's a Beijing-style street food place in a suburb o
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by amyjess 8y ago
Yes, first movers in general have a disadvantage. For example, this is part of the reason why Sega's hardware business died. Admittedly, that was only part of it: there was some mismanagement behind Sega's decline too. Actually, y
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by amyjess 8y ago
Honestly, I think both of those perspectives don't quite explain why Sears died. Sears died because Eddie Lampert spent years systematically looting the company. If not for Lampert's dismanagement [0], Sears would be in roughly th
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by amyjess 8y ago
I'm fairly sure that the bulk of GitHub's revenue comes from companies using GitHub as their primary SCM. B2B revenue is huge compared to anything you'll get from the few hobbyists who are both able and willing to pay for t
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On the other hand, it's also "Oops, GitHub will never give us an embargoed announcement again, and a lot of other companies will probably follow suit."

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